Ottawa's Top Rated Escape Rooms

Enjoying a getaway with friends at a cabin in the woods, you sit around the campfire. Alex pulls out a Ouija board and you all begin to play. The 'game' starts to shake and spells a weird message before abruptly reverting to lifelessness. Stricken with fear, everyone runs to the cabin, however, Alex has vanished! You hear demonic chanting from within the cabin. Who or what can it be?

Are you brave enough to step inside and face the spirits you have awoken?

You’re trapped in Ward 13, a condemned district of an abandoned asylum. Escape before the mad scientist, who haunts the asylum basement to this very day, returns and you end up the next eyeball in his formaldehyde jar.

Long ago you made a deal with a mysterious stranger, and for a time all of your dreams came true. Lately however you've been feeling drained, beset by a darkness. It must be true, you signed your soul away to the devil. Find the contract and escape with your soul before the Prince of Darkness returns.

The world is facing a modern day prohibition. Only one beer recipe remains, and it's for the tastiest beer in the world - Beau's! Can you save the last beer recipe on Earth?

You and your pack of thieves enter a famed art gallery seeking a precious collection piece. Suddenly the alarm system triggers and the authorities are notified! Will you have the skills to steal the collection piece and escape the gallery before they arrive?

Alright crew! We're here to crack the Schwartz family vault, located inside their high-security panic room. We think there's major loot inside this bad-boy, so let’s get in and out quick with as much of it as possible.

We only have 45 minutes before the cops show up. I'll wait 'round back with the getaway van, but if you're even one second late, I'm gone...

Psycho is back! You finally have a warrant to search the office of renowned psychologist, Vincent Snow. It has been years since you began your investigation into the disappearance of his young beautiful wife. You enter to gather evidence, only to find that you are now part of his twisted game!

Can you crack the case and outwit this 'Psycho' before he steals your final breath?

Treasure Hunters that you are, you wander into the Valley of the Kings and stumble upon an abandoned excavation site. Lured in by a strange force, you ignore the hurried footprints leading out. As you enter, a voice echoes through the walls. "The Pharaoh's curse!" you gasp. Can you locate the famed Guardian's statue, the only known relic that can break curse, before exiting the Tomb?

Nearly a century ago, Rose LaFleur checked into this very room before vanishing along with the famed diamond in her possession. Can you retrace her steps and uncover the truth behind her disappearance?

Explore the studio of William Dank, who desperately wanted to become a world renowned illusionist. Failure pushed him to the brink of self-destruction, but was he really a murderer?

Look into the past, and scour the spot where Ottawa’s wealthiest criminals spent their time. Allegedly, some of the city’s most notorious crimes were hatched within this very room. Could evidence of William Dank’s whereabouts be preserved after all these years?

Charlie, the clerk at the Museum of Nature, is being framed for the suspicious disappearance of specimens from the Mammals Gallery! Your team of private investigators has been hired to determine the facts behind these grizzly allegations.

Can you solve the mystery of the missing mammals and save Charlie's job?

Good news: Dr. Rex has invented the world's first working time machine!

Bad news: On his most recent trip back in time he accidentally brought back some unwanted, formerly extinct stowaways! You have 60 minutes to help Dr. Rex return these dinosaurs back to where they came from before they are stuck in the present.

You are on the final guided tour of the day, when you and your friends duck into a room and hide so that you can spend a night at the museum. You soon discover that it is not a museum at all. It is actually a cover for an enemy spy organization. You overhear some people talking behind closed doors of an imminent attack scheduled for tonight! You must escape! But first, you must find the communications room, stop the launch sequence and phone-in the Red Alert transmission to the outside world before it is too late! 12 people, 60 minutes. Do you have what it takes to save the world?

Wrongly accused, your gang is sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit. Suspecting you are of Fenian descent, the notoriously rigid Judge Reinhold shows no mercy for your high treason. Were you set up by the corrupt Warden and his crooked henchmen? Will your cunning and wit allow you to prove your innocence? Will you escape before your time is up or will you swing from the gallows in one hour's time?

Cornwall's original escape experience returns for a second season, this time with a few new twists and turns. Do you have what it takes to be confined a second time?

This interactive experience plays out in The Historic Cornwall Jail, located at 11 Water Street in Cornwall.